This paper details the FISA court and statutes including its historical development. The operations of the Court are detailed. The number of surveillance orders issued and denied are detailed. Changes wrought by the Patriot Act are discussed. this paper asks whether the FISC is a new Star...

This article analyzes legislation and policies that limit prisoners' sexual expression and autonomy. The article juxtaposes prisoners interest in sexual expression against the interests of the state in regulating sex by and between prisoners. The article concludes that the state has an interest...

The middle finger is one of the most commonly used insulting gestures in the United States. The finger, which is used to convey a wide range of emotions, is visible on streets and highways, in schools, shopping malls, and sporting events, in courts and execution chambers, in advertisements and...

For the past fifteen years, the execution of Roger Coleman has served as perhaps the most infamous illustration of the U.S. Supreme Court's determination to help the states achieve finality in their criminal cases. Convicted of rape and murder in 1982, Coleman steadfastly maintained his...

This paper argues that the plain view doctrine, an exception to the Fourth Amendment, should not apply to digital evidence. Searches pursuant to warrants for digital property are easily transformed into general searches of a suspect's digital property because police, by necessity, must perform a...

The procedural and substantive complexities of disciplinary systems maintained by institutions of higher education for the purpose of student governance have steadily increased over the recent decades. Notwithstanding that fact, many such institutions have refused to allow students to be...

No one can deny the terrible toll that a nuclear bomb has on humans and our environment. But what about the impacts of weapons containing depleted uranium (DU), a low-level radioactive waste product? A number of countries, including the United States, have used DU munitions during times of war....

This essay traces the vein of thought represented by Calabresi's "The Costs of Accidents", both backward in time to examine its sources, and forward to its impact on current scholarship. I focus on three broad topics: positive versus normative law and economics, positivist versus anti-positivist...

Italian Abstract: Da ormai quasi 50 anni si discute del reato di “ecocidio”, che è tuttora oggetto di dibattito. Iniziato come problematica scientifica, principalmente attinente alla biologia, l’ecocidio è diventato anzitutto una questione politica prima ancora che giuridica....

Cannabis legalization advocates often argue that cannabis legalization offers the potential to reduce the private and social costs related to criminalization and incarceration --- particularly for marginalized populations. While this assertion is theoretically plausible, it boils down to an...